LocalLens is an online business directory built around the concept of building communities and focusing on offering a multitude of features to businesses. Enough on the plug, lets talk about the technology…
It might look like just another business directory. However, what’s under the hood what really makes it tick for me.
I have been contributing to this project for just over 6 months now. My main role is to build the architecture and the framework to be as flexible, robust and functional as possible, yet still maintain best coding practises and use well defined development patterns.
So, what under the hood?
Database Server: MS SQL 2008 as data storage
Language and frameworks: c#, .Net 3.5, Linq, Web Services, JSON
ORM: LLBLGEN as our database abstraction layer
Logging: log4net as our logging platform
UI & Reporting Tools: Telerik AJAX .Net Controls
Search Tool: linq to lucene, lucene.net
Patterns Used: Singleton, Provider, DDD, TDD
locallens is built using 4 tires that work together to bring the website to life, allowing for further growth and integration with other systems.
An example would be to extend the businesses and events to an iPhone application that would serve the data straight out of the website to the iphone app, without any further development.
I will spend more time in another post talking about some techniques that I have useful in using LLBLGEN as our ORM platform in multi-tired web applications.
for now, if you like to have a look at the website and give me a feedback that would be great.
locallens.com.au (keep in mind, its currently in RC1 and not all the content there yet)
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